"Supreme Court could hear whooping crane case": Scott Huddleston will have this article in Saturday's edition of The San Antonio Express-News. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

"Some Florida counties halt all courthouse marriages as gay weddings loom": Reuters has a report that begins, "Wedding bells have stopped ringing in the courthouses of several northern Florida counties, where clerks opted to cease all marriage ceremonies rather than administer vows to gay couples when same-sex marriage becomes legal next week."Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman

Friday, January 2, 2015

"A New Legal Weapon For State DOT: Condemnation of 'Intangible Property.'" Columnist Jon Lender of The Hartford Courant has this essay online today.Posted at 09:08 PM by Howard Bashman

"The Unending Anxiety of an ICYMI World": In the Style section of Sunday's edition of The New York Times, Teddy Wayne will have a "Future Tense" essay that begins, "In case you missed it, the initials ICYMI stand for the first five words of this sentence."Posted at 06:30 PM by Howard Bashman

"The Stakes For The Supreme Court Case Against Obamacare Are Getting Even Higher": Tara Culp-Ressler has this post today at ThinkProgress.Posted at 01:22 PM by Howard Bashman

Friday, January 2, 2015

"What does 'exposes' in '[a]ny person who abuses, exposes, tortures, torments, or cruelly punishes a minor' mean to you?" Eugene Volokh has this interesting post today at "The Volokh Conspiracy."Posted at 01:20 PM by Howard Bashman

Friday, January 2, 2015

"We need an Asian-Pacific American on the Supreme Court": Hayato Watanable has this post today at The Hill's "Congress Blog."Posted at 01:16 PM by Howard Bashman

"Federalist Rolling Papers: Two states' rights advocates are pursuing a silly lawsuit to the Supreme Court that could undermine states' rights." Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.Posted at 01:08 PM by Howard Bashman

"Mario Cuomo, former New York governor, dead at 82": The New York Daily News has this report.

As the article explains, "Cuomo turned down another legacy-making opportunity when he asked President Bill Clinton to take him off the short list of potential replacements for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Another New Yorker, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was nominated instead."

"SAC's Steinberg Appeal Delayed as U.S. Weighs Challenge": Bloomberg News has a report that begins, "SAC Capital Advisors LP hedge fund manager Michael Steinberg's appeal of his insider trading conviction was further delayed by a court as the government decides how to respond to a ruling that upended guilty verdicts in two related cases."Posted at 01:00 PM by Howard Bashman

"Heroine of gay marriage movement feels pride in progress; Landmark ruling in Edie Windsor's case forced the government to recognize the unions": Richard Wolf of USA Today had this article earlier this week.Posted at 10:47 AM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, January 1, 2015

"Cops don't have legal duty for safety of 'unknown' passengers in fleeing cars, Supreme Court rules": Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

"If the Supreme Court tackles the NSA in 2015, it'll be one of these five cases: How a church, terror suspects, and some lawyers are pushing privacy on the legal front." Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica has this report today.Posted at 10:16 AM by Howard Bashman

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

"2014 Was a Lousy Year for Obama at the Supreme Court": Damon Root had this post yesterday at Reason.com's "Hit & Run" blog.Posted at 10:14 PM by Howard Bashman